Private message to Nymphadora Tonks-Ponds
Sunday, 14 October 2012 12:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alt_hydraHello, Cousin Dora,
Thank you for answering my Owl.
About the first part: Professor Dolohov has made the subject more interesting, I think, but also more demanding. And it's more complex in the sense that he's shown there's more to the Dark Arts than power and brutality, which is what Miss Professor Carrow focused on. But even if he teaches the subject well I'm not sure that I like him.
Remember what I said about how people are starting to notice that Justin matters to me? Well, he's one of the reasons why. He told Daddy about us, and while I'm not in trouble exactly I just know that Daddy doesn't like it one bit.
I'm sorry if I made you feel old by asking you about the other things. I asked you because you're not old. Even if you're married and have a baby, I thought you might better remember what it was like to be my age.
Anyway, your answers gave me a lot to think about. What you said about mistakes not mattering as much as people think, especially. Because, really, how much can they matter? Why do people make the whole subject into such a life or death thing when everyone ends up doing it, eventually? Or almost everyone, anyway. All the talking and discussing and deciding and researching... it won't make something feel right if it doesn't feel right, and it won't make something feel wrong if it doesn't feel wrong. If that makes sense.
I still have more things to think about but this helps, very much.
And I really do hope that I can see you and Bea and Junius over the hols. They're still so far away, aren't they? Can you try to encourage Bea to keep her shelf-rearranging habits going until then? I shouldn't want to miss that!
From,
Hydra
Thank you for answering my Owl.
About the first part: Professor Dolohov has made the subject more interesting, I think, but also more demanding. And it's more complex in the sense that he's shown there's more to the Dark Arts than power and brutality, which is what Miss Professor Carrow focused on. But even if he teaches the subject well I'm not sure that I like him.
Remember what I said about how people are starting to notice that Justin matters to me? Well, he's one of the reasons why. He told Daddy about us, and while I'm not in trouble exactly I just know that Daddy doesn't like it one bit.
I'm sorry if I made you feel old by asking you about the other things. I asked you because you're not old. Even if you're married and have a baby, I thought you might better remember what it was like to be my age.
Anyway, your answers gave me a lot to think about. What you said about mistakes not mattering as much as people think, especially. Because, really, how much can they matter? Why do people make the whole subject into such a life or death thing when everyone ends up doing it, eventually? Or almost everyone, anyway. All the talking and discussing and deciding and researching... it won't make something feel right if it doesn't feel right, and it won't make something feel wrong if it doesn't feel wrong. If that makes sense.
I still have more things to think about but this helps, very much.
And I really do hope that I can see you and Bea and Junius over the hols. They're still so far away, aren't they? Can you try to encourage Bea to keep her shelf-rearranging habits going until then? I shouldn't want to miss that!
From,
Hydra
